Artemis II is preparing for launch from the Kennedy Space Center, where the rocket will carry the Orion spacecraft for a second time, this time with a crew on its journey to the moon.

NASA stopped short of completing a critical fuel test for its Artemis 2 SLS rocket because of hydrogen leaks that sound a lot like the problems they had during Artemis 1.

NASA plans to test the planned leak repair with a second dress rehearsal fueling test later this month.

NASA's Artemis II mission reached a critical milestone this week as teams conducted a wet dress rehearsal of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft during an unusually intense blast of cold air surged across Florida, delivering record-breaking low temperatures to the Sunshine State.

NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the moon shows how U.S. space strategy has changed since Apollo -- and contrasts with China's closed program.

See the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft and Earth about 2 hours prior to splashdown in this time-lapse. Credit: NASA | time-lapse by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: A Rising Sun by Alan Ellis / courtesy o

NASA is working to take astronauts farther from Earth than any humans have ever gone, but the ambitious and costly moonshot has been plagued by delays.

Time to suit up!